Criminal certain to nick shilling after pound?

• Criminal taking fat cut is in the money
• Person stealing new clarinets
• Petty thief left with dangerous criminal, we hear
• Thief initially lambasts another criminal on radio
• Liberal listened to criminal and thief
• One knocks off arrangement for clarinets

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1803, from larceny + -ist . Earlier was larcener (1630s).

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who commits larceny [syn: larcener ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Larcener \Lar"ce*ner\, Larcenist \Lar"ce*nist\, n. One who commits larceny.